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This Decorated Baby Shower Cookies' page includes these sections:
☑️Inspiration idea sets
☑️Decorating techniques that are easy
☑️Popular cutters for either gender
☑️My new royal icing transfer templates for both genders
To stay on top of your game by preparing ahead of time for these decorated baby shower cookies, go ahead and make the best sugar cookies. Grab my free Superior Royal Icing, glaze recipe, and the best crusting buttercream too. (Yes, I have you covered 😉).
If the baby shower is a ways out, having these cut out and baked will ease the pressure. Just pop them in the freezer, thaw, and decorate when you are ready.
Now let's get started with some inspiration and ideas!
➡️Single arch cookie cutter by Sugar Rex on Etsy
Here are some decorated baby shower cookies for your inspiration. When a customer sends cookie pictures from the internet, I very often will tell them I will make the theme similar and add and take away cookie cutter shapes. This way, it makes the set personal, not something everyone else gets.
I will include links to some special cutters I especially like.
I will add a sidebar. Do you are having problems with cracked icing after it is dried or icing running off the cookie? Do you struggle with air bubbles or flat icing instead of puffy? Like most, is color bleed a thorn in your side?
WeCookiers to the rescue again! See my Royal Icing Flooding page and get a free 2-page download that covers (I hope) all of your frustrations.
Now back to baby cookies...
This was my first decorated baby shower cookie set. It was the only cutters I had for babies at the time (4). As you see, you do not need very many to make an adorable set...
Here is the set from the 1st video on this page you can pin to Pinterest...
These baby elephant decorated baby shower cookies were for a a neutral shower. The mother preferred not to know the gender. They chose a teal and salmon color palette.
Yippee-ki-yi-yay, here is a set all doodied up fer ya 🤠. For the pocket, I simply used a rectangle and cut of the bottom at angles on both sides. Enjoy my video!
Sometimes as cookiers we get pretty lucky to get orders with only two colors, excluding white. That doesn't mean they can't be sweetly decorated. Remember looks are not everything.
Are you sure you know how to bake sugar cookies? That may be a silly question to you. But don't shrug it off. I may inspire you with shortcuts and other tips. Find out on How to Bake Sugar Cookies.
Another set for either baby girl cookies or baby boy cookies. Sage color has been quite popular for some time now.
➡️'baby' cutter by Mike's Cookie Cutters on Etsy
Here are some cookie cutter flips for decorated baby shower cookies you might find helpful...
Join me as we explore some techniques to decorate sugar cookies with royal icing. There are many methods to use, these are just a few. See plenty more techniques here.
*️⃣food color markers
Food color markers are invaluable and much needed in a cookier's world. They allow for very find and intricute detail work, like in these 'stitches'. The bootie cookie was one of my first cutters. That was in the day of only metal cutters! Years later, it's still one of my go-to baby cookie cutters.
*️⃣Molds
Using silicone molds for decorated baby shower cookies are the cats (or 'deer' ha!)
I have so many molds that I do not care to even count them! They come in handy for little shapes. The deer in this photo was fondant. I also use poured chocolate.
*️⃣Wet-on-wet technique
Whenever you can do this cookie decorating technique, grab the chance! It saves so much time.
The only caution is to make sure your royal icing consistency is the same for any colors you will be adding. If one is thicker, the thinner icing will pull the thicker color into it and cause color bleed.
Speaking of color bleed, take a short travel over to see my Royal Icing Tips page where you can get a free, 2-page download to prevent many icing problems for cookies: Royal Icing Tips.
The round sloth faces were the wet-on-wet (not the full body ones). The black facial features were added after the icing crusted.
*️⃣Edible images
Edible images are the ultimate in personalization for decorated baby shower cookies. Whether it be the child's photo or a sonogram image, or the pregnant couple. Printing directly on cookies, like an Eddie, would be best, but, OUTCH! Those suckers are so expensive.
Edible image copiers are at least reachable. See my page on those if you have questions. Edible Cookie Images
➡️Balloon arch cookie cutter by Sugar Rex on Etsy
*️⃣Airbrushing cookies
In my opinion, I believe an airbrush could be your most important and valuable pieces of equipment. Truly, it catapults your work to an instant professional. You have 2 options, cordless or a regular one. See the best options on my page here: Airbrushing Cookies
I'll interject a sweet children's haiku by Pepper Blair...
This first cookie is one that simply is the greatest! It is so easy to decorate. You can add extras to it like a blanket, and royal icing transfers, maybe a teddy bear or something. Decorate it for either a baby boy or girl (or neutral).
Don't you just love it?
➡️Baby crib cookie by Cookie Cutter Lady on Etsy
Here is a great bonus tip. Wondering how I get the beautiful soft pink you see on the crib or 'Baby in Bloom'? I use the Wilton maroon food color gel, but just a tiny dab! That's it. I'm an avid Americolor person, but I do not really care for either of their pinks for a baby girl.
This 'Baby in bloom' cutter is becoming more popular. This is another cookie cutter that I am glad I have. The customer really like it.
➡️Baby in bloom cookie cutter by Cookie Cutter Lady on Etsy
If you want to learn more about royal icing transfers, here is my page introducing you to the wonderful world of Royal Icing Transfers.
We all love royal icing transfer sheets. Why?
-they save us real time in the end
-allows more creativity
-very inexpensive
-gets rid of the color bleed problem
Here is a 6 page set I created to make those baby clothes hanging on a clothesline cookies. It'll save you so much time making this design of decorated baby shower cookies.
Use all the royal icing transfers you make with this set on your cookies (or other confections), or pick and choose.
Purchasing the 6-page set will save you $2.50. However, if you would like to purchase just the ones you have your eye on, I've made that available too, tap this link.
Okay, that sums it all up.
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